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Kraft, Kornelius - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...

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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

Dustmann, Christian - 2012

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link …

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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2022

We give an overview of the "German model" of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany outsources collective bargaining to the sectoral level,...

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Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems : International Evidence

Burdin, Gabriel; Kato, Takao - 2022

We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of complementarity in organizations. Specifically, rather than treating each work practice in isolation, we consider it an element of HIWS (High...

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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments

Kölling, Arnd - 2019

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Grund, Christian - 2019

Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance … appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual …. Employees working in establishments with a works council are more likely to face a formal performance appraisal procedure. Works …

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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 …

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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